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CNN Special Investigations Unit
''CNN Special Investigations Unit'' is an American investigative documentary program on CNN weekends. Expanding upon ''CNN Presents'', SIU focuses on each episode being an in depth investigative report about news stories being covered, commonly featuring a number of interviews with experts on the issue and people who have witnessed the story taking place. The reports are commonly long-form, allowing for the network to cover more information and perspectives than would be available during a 5-minute report on another CNN program, such as ''CNN Newsroom''. Compared to ''Presents'', the show has taken a slightly larger point of the reporting being done by CNN reporters, the first commercials promoting the program largely showing pictures of anchors and reporters on locations, asking questions to people on the locations. In addition, the look and feel of the show has changed somewhat drastically, adding more emphasis on the graphics used to present the program itself, in addition to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Practitioners sometimes use the terms "watchdog reporting" or "accountability reporting." Most investigative journalism has traditionally been conducted by newspapers, wire services, and freelance journalists. With the decline in income through advertising, many traditional news services have struggled to fund investigative journalism, due to it being very time-consuming and expensive. Journalistic investigations are increasingly carried out by news organizations working together, even internationally (as in the case of the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers), or by organizations such as ProPublica, which have not operated previously as news publishers and which rely on the support of the public and benefact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are Educational film, educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very Informational listening, informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social media platfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN Presents
''CNN Presents'' is an American documentary program on CNN weekends. The program used to be replaced with ''CNN Special Investigations Unit'', which features the same documentary format, but differs from it in a number of ways and is shorter in length. The program was originally a regular weekly series that looks in-depth in the important news stories of the times. More recently, it became a "special event" documentary that airs every time a larger, more long-term special report went into making. Notably, the program has been a winner of a number of different awards, including the ''International Documentary Association Best Documentary Series'' award. Previous to his departure from CNN, ''Presents'' was hosted and narrated by Aaron Brown. CNN Presents has been revived since its presentation of God's Warriors by Christiane Amanpour in August 2007, and later with Planet in Peril, Black in America, and Latino in America Latino or Latinos most often refers to: * Latino (demon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN Newsroom
''CNN Newsroom'' (also simply known as ''Newsroom'') is an American news programming block that airs on CNN. Broadcasting for 43 hours each week, ''Newsroom'' features live and taped news reports, in addition to analysis from experts on the issues being covered, and headlines throughout each hour. The program tends to focus on softer news than their hard news politics-based primetime lineup. The program is the standard "brand" for general rolling-news programming for the network, originating from their headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. It debuted on September 4, 2006 replacing ''CNN Live Today'', ''Live From'', ''CNN Saturday'', ''CNN Saturday Night'', ''CNN Sunday'', and ''CNN Sunday Night''. History ''CNN Newsroom'' features various anchors on weekdays and weekends. Since the start of September 8, 2008, the program has employed a single-presenter format. The program shares the same name of an earlier CNN/U.S. program, debuted in 1989, that was shown commercial-free by tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Maria Heideh AmanpourStated on ''Finding Your Roots'', 22 January 2019 (; fa, کریستیان امانپور, Kristiane Amānpur; born 12 January 1958) is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program ''Amanpour''. She is also the host of ''Amanpour & Company'' on PBS. Early life and education Amanpour was born in the West London suburb of Ealing, the daughter of Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Amanpour (''née'' Hill). Her father was Iranian, from Tehran. Amanpour was raised in Tehran until the age of 11. retrieved 10 August 2013 , Minute 6:06 , ''"My mother is a Christian from England and my father was a Muslim from Iran. I married a Jewish American."'' Her father was Shi'ite Muslim and her mother was Roman Catholic. After completing the larger part of her primary school education in Iran, she was sent to a boarding school in England by her pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator from the Vanderbilt family. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news broadcast show ''Anderson Cooper 360°''. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for '' 60 Minutes'' on CBS News. After graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989, he began traveling the world, shooting footage of war-torn regions for Channel One News. Cooper was hired by ABC News as a correspondent in 1995, but he soon took more jobs throughout the network, working for a short time as a co-anchor, reality game show host, and fill-in morning talk show host. In 2001, Cooper joined CNN, where he was given his own show, ''Anderson Cooper 360°'', in 2003; he has remained the show's host since. He developed a reputation for his on-the-ground reporting of breaking news events, with his coverage of Hurricane Katrina causing his popularity to sharply increase. For hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Roberts (television Reporter)
John David Roberts (born November 15, 1956) is a Canadian-American television journalist currently working for the Fox News Channel, as the co-anchor of ''America Reports''. Roberts formerly worked as the Fox News Chief White House Correspondent from 2017 to 2021, covering the Donald Trump presidency. He joined Fox News in January 2011. Prior to Fox News, Roberts was at CNN where he was an News anchor, anchor and Senior National Correspondent. He worked at various radio and television jobs before joining CTV Television Network, CTV in 1990, CBS News in 1992 and CNN in 2006. On March 12, 2009, Roberts was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. Prior to becoming their chief White House correspondent, Roberts was a national correspondent for Fox News, based in Atlanta. Early life Roberts was born in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in Mississauga, Ontario. He attended Erindale Secondary School and Lorne Park Secondary School and later the University of Toronto's University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soledad O'Brien
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien (born September 19, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer. Since 2016, O'Brien has been the host for ''Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien,'' a nationally syndicated weekly talk show produced by Hearst Television. She is chairwoman of Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production company and distributor that she founded in 2013. She is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. O'Brien co-anchored CNN's '' American Morning'' from 2003 to 2007, and was the anchor of CNN's morning news program ''Starting Point'' from 2012 to 2013. In 2013, O'Brien became special correspondent on the Al Jazeera America news program ''America Tonight,'' and is also a correspondent on HBO's ''Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel''. Early life and education O'Brien was born and raised in St. James, New York, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, member of the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the chief medical correspondent for CNN. Gupta is known for his many TV appearances on health-related issues. During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, he has been a frequent contributor to numerous CNN shows covering the crisis, as well as hosting a weekly town hall with Anderson Cooper. Gupta was the host of the CNN show '' Sanjay Gupta MD'' for which he has won multiple Emmy Awards. Gupta also hosted the 6 part mini series ''Chasing Life''. He is a frequent contributor to other CNN programs such as '' American Morning'', ''Larry King Live'', ''CNN Tonight'', and ''Anderson Cooper 360°''. His reports from Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John King (journalist)
John King (born August 30, 1963) is an American news anchor. He is CNN's chief national correspondent, based in Washington, D.C., and is the weekday anchor of its roundtable political discussion program ''Inside Politics''. He formerly anchored '' State of the Union'' and '' John King, USA''. Personal life King was born in Boston. He is of Irish descent with ancestors from Dún Locháin, Co. Galway. He attended Boston Latin School, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island. John King and Jean Makie, his first wife, have two children, named Noah and Hannah. On May 25, 2008, King married his second wife, fellow CNN anchor Dana Bash. Before marrying Bash, King (previously a Roman Catholic) converted to Judaism, Bash's religion. Bash and King have a son, Jonah, who was born in June 2011. The couple separated in March 2012. On October 19, 2021, King revealed on his show ''Inside Politics'' that he has multiple sclerosis and is thus immun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candy Crowley
Candy Alt Crowley (born December 26, 1948) is an American news anchor who was employed as CNN's chief political correspondent, specializing in American national and state elections. She was based in CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau and was the anchor of their Sunday morning talk show ''State of the Union with Candy Crowley''. She has covered elections for over two decades. Early life and education Crowley was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where her family had moved briefly from St. Louis, Missouri. Her family moved back to St. Louis when she was a toddler and she grew up in the St. Louis County suburb of Creve Coeur, Missouri. She attended kindergarten through high school at The Principia School, a private school in St. Louis County, where she graduated in 1966. After high school she attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Career Crowley started her career as a newsroom assistant with the Washin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbie Boudreau
Abbie Marie Boudreau (born April 14, 1978) is currently the CEO and founder of SOCKABU, a specialty sock company. Abbie is a 20- year TV broadcast veteran. She is a three time National Emmy Award winning journalist and a Gracie Award winner for her collaborative work on ABC News' Good Morning America. Early career Abbie grew up in Bourbonnais, Illinois and attended Bradley Bourbonnais Community High School before attending Loyola University in Chicago earning her bachelor's and a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University.CNN Programs – Anchors/Reporters – Abbie Boudreau Prior to joining Boudreau worked at KWWL-TV in |
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